Carole Mitchell Frost:  

Dear Classmates, My favorite teacher at ORHS was Mr. Grossman. Does anyone know if he's still around? He was SO funny and a GREAT art teacher. He taught us perspective, balance, etc., and, he was very funny! Because I loved art so much, I decided to become an art teacher. Because every person is unique, drawing and painting people was my forte and my favorite kind of art work. My other favorite class at ORHS was library. My love of reading, for information, as well as pleasure, made working in the school library fun for me. Our two librarians were SO nice and helpful that I decided that I, also, wanted to become a school librarian. I LOVE to read science fiction, and I love anything to do with outer space -- movies, star gazing, etc. I hope to live long enough to find out that there are other solar systems with "life," any kind of life, on them! I met my first husband, Patrick H. Frost, an art and biology major, at the University of North Alabama. It was there that I received a B. S. in Elementary Education. Then, a few years later, I went back to UT to receive my library certification. Pat was an absolutely WONDERFUL, KIND, and LOVING person, who died VERY SUDDENLY from a massive cerebral hemorrhage while we, our very YOUNG daughters, and his family, were all at the beach in New Jersey! It was so devastating for my daughters and me that I decided to move from Memphis back to Oak Ridge to be near my parents. For many years, I was the art teacher and the librarian here in Oak Ridge at St. Mary's School. I retired, however, from being both the art teacher and the librarian many years ago, and became jus...Expand for more